It’s Sea Turtle Week – Five Short Lessons

Sea Turtles 101

Google Arts and Culture Turtle Stories
Google Arts and Culture uses this collection of imagery and videos about five various kinds of sea turtles discovered off the coast of Brazil. The images is good however the collection is a little light on details.

Sea Turtles 101 is a video from National Geographics 101 series. As you may expect, the video covers the essentials of the life and development of sea turtles, the number and sort of sea turtles, recreation of sea turtles, and the environmental challenges facing sea turtles today. While not awfully interesting, the video is brief and helpful.

Turtle Travel Tips
Turtle Travel Tips is an adorable SciShow Kids video about how leatherback sea turtles navigate countless miles of ocean to return to nesting websites.

Earlier this week when I was checking the weather report on
NOAA.gov I saw a banner announcing that
Prior to that I didnt understand that there is a Sea Turtle Week. None-the-less it reminded me of the time that I experienced sea turtles nesting in Costa Rica and it prompted me to look at some resources for mentor and finding out about sea turtles.

7 Sea Turtle Facts
7 Sea Turtle Facts is a helpful page published by NOAA. The page consists of a number of videos about sea turtle habitat, life, and ecological challenges dealing with sea turtles.

Prior to that I didnt know that there is a Sea Turtle Week. None-the-less it advised me of the time that I saw sea turtles nesting in Costa Rica and it prompted me to look at some resources for teaching and discovering about sea turtles. As you might anticipate, the video covers the fundamentals of the life and evolution of sea turtles, the number and kind of sea turtles, reproduction of sea turtles, and the ecological challenges dealing with sea turtles today.

Taking a trip Turtles
Taking a trip Turtles is an ESRI Story Map, produced by NOAA, about 3 kinds of sea turtles found in the waters around Cape Cod and how people work to save cold-stunned sea turtles on the beaches of Cape Cod.

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